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Rita Emch The Swiss delegation had travelled to New York with the aim of getting the conference to recognise that energy use, economic development and climate change are closely linked. …The draft of the final declaration in the name of the Group of 77 developing countries and China was approved by Pakistan and the United States. Those countries refuse any specific reference to human activities playing a role in climate change.
Billions in oil missing in Iraq :U.S. study
Prospects for an oil insurgency in the Angolan exclave
Q&A with Venezuela’s energy minister
IEA calls for OPEC to raise output
IEA: Iran gasoline rationing is a clever move
LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
IBM starts green business arm
Mass. union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’
Hershey mired in chocolate mess (corn prices)
Ethanol seen chomping into corn crops
USDA economist projects 58% growth in ethanol
“Car brain” confesses, pleads: ‘make driving annoying and expensive’
Public purse props up fossil fuel industries in Australia
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions
Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change
Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch
Warming triggers ‘alarming’ retreat of Himalayan glaciers
James Lovelock’s strange bedfellows (skeptics)
Nature: A clear direction (the IPCC and geoengineering)
Is this what it takes to save the world? (geoengineering)
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Frenetic lifestyle puts the boots to leisurely strolls
Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling to cope
US ‘bids to water down global warming declaration’
To cool the planet: regulation vs market
Climate change could lead to global conflict say UK foreign secretary
“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world
‘Era of cheap energy is over,’ says Buckee
Rep. Bartlett commemorates Admiral Rickover’s 1957 speech on energy
DOE says computer tools to extract more oil
